http://failuremag.com/index.php Nonfiction book reviews covering history, business, sports, science, entertainment, marketing, management and more. en jzasky@aol.com Copyright 2012 2012-05-21T14:07:43-05:00 http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/colonel_sanders/ http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/colonel_sanders/#When:13:07:43Z When he was sixty-five, Harland Sanders went broke for the umpteenth time. Then he founded a “finger-lickin good” fried chicken business. 2012-05-21T13:07:43-05:00 http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/to_forgive_design/ http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/to_forgive_design/#When:16:07:23Z “What should surprise us, really, is not that failures occur but that they do not do so more often,” writes failure analyst Henry Petroski in this sequel to “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design.”  2012-05-09T16:07:23-05:00 http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/a_visitors_guide_to_the_ancient_olympics/ http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/a_visitors_guide_to_the_ancient_olympics/#When:00:55:44Z Written in the style of a travel guide, historian Neil Faulkner allows the reader to imagine what it would have been like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C. 2012-05-06T00:55:44-05:00 http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/hitler/ http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/hitler/#When:22:25:51Z A.N. Wilson’s biography of Hitler addresses what the author describes as “the peculiar mystery of the Hitler phenomenon.” That is, how a man with little energy and almost no skills was able to dominate European history for more than a decade. 2012-05-05T22:25:51-05:00 http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/you_are_good_at_things/ http://failuremag.com/index.php/book_review/article/you_are_good_at_things/#When:18:16:01Z A quirky celebration of skills that don’t pay the bills. 2012-03-23T18:16:01-05:00